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A patient with Achilles tendinosis received an injection of Amniofix to the left Achilles tendon. Based on the operative report the Amniofix was reconstituted with injectable saline and then inject...
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A patient underwent a right nipple-sparing mastectomy and a left skin-sparing mastectomy with a left axillary dissection. Should CPT code 19307, Mastectomy, modified radical, including axillary...
A skin-spari...
The physician orders a 24-hour urine calcium and we assigned CPT code 82340, Calcium; urine quantitative, timed specimen. However, at some of our labs, a 24-hour urine calcium test always ...
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A patient with chronic pelvic pain and severe dyspareunia presents for laparoscopy. The patient was brought to the operating room and given general anesthesia. The laparoscopy was started and numer...
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A patient presents to have a diagnostic laparoscopy with lysis of dense adhesions of the bowel and omentum (previous ruptured appendix) and drainage of bilateral endometriomas.
Once th...
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Patient presents with adhesions of the ossicular chain with reduced mobility and other diagnoses. A tympanotomy was performed and a flap created and elevated. The ossicular chain became visible and...
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Patient with a history of laparoscopic and hysteroscopic myomectomy, previous abdominoplasty presents with extensive adhesions.
Extensive lysis of adhesions were performed to free the ...
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What is the appropriate CPT code for reporting a laparoscopic augmentation of the lower esophageal sphincter with a magnetic device (e.g., LINX® Reflux Management System)?
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A patient is seen at our facility one week postop debridement of the medial cuneiform bone of the right foot with application of ACell porcine xenograft. The left foot is one-week status post Cellu...
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A patient presented to the catheterization lab for a suprarenal and infrarenal abdominal aortography with iliofemoral runoff. The catheter was placed in the suprarenal abdominal aorta and the aorto...
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